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the good old time russell is more or less a goner never mind the fox terrier fat man

This well i know it DEE MAC everybody seems to keep black terriers nowadays,but there is still pockets around the country where you will find the old fashined white terrier still been worked and bred to a good standard.

North devon have a lot of good workers down there.

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we had a fox terrier x english bull terrier first cross my grand father owended her, she was an animal to ground, she was bred in cork, 20 years ago, there is a hard line of terriers off her liteer mates still around.

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A few lads in Westmeath use them for hunting cover to guns and account for good numbers of foxes every season. I haven't seen one that would be just used for a digging dog only. In and out and a quick bolt which is ideal for knocking out cover bushing and then move on to next place. Handy dog for that job but I wouldn't hold my breath settling down for an 8 foot dig or the ones I seen would be well out in that time. They do have their uses though and are plenty vocal in cover. The only fault I seen was they were that yappy on every scent ( rabbit, hare, deer and pheasants ) that they sometimes pulled the fox only bushers off a good line when they started screaming at everything and anything.